Sara Paul

This exhibit features vintage matchbooks with famous landmarks in Lenox, Pittsfield, Great Barrington, other Berkshire towns.Local designer, curator, and collector, Sara Paul, started Shire Prints to help the public discover the lost art of matchbook art. The matchbooks have been scanned at a high resolution and printed many times greater than their size so that one can get an up-close look at matchbook art in its full color, detail, and splendor.

For more information about Shire Prints visit: www.shireprints.com

JOAN ROOKS

Joan is a master of the art of block printing. Her large scale works appear at first to be simple, almost abstract textural forms. She will take an image like a wasp’s nest, and texture and elaborate the surface with hundreds of intertwined images, such as women and children doing household tasks, or getting dressed.  From a distance a print can be enjoyed as a large simple textured form, or on close examination, it can almost be viewed as a book full of obscure stories. She studied with Nicholas Todisco. See more of her work on Instagram at goeyjoan

THE DOT GALLERY@

DOTTIES COFFEE LOUNGE

OCTOBER 1 THROUGH DECEMBER 31